###PixelFX -- Professional Bitmap Processing for UltraCanvas
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**Transform pixels into perfection with industrial-strength image processing**

PixelFX is UltraCanvas's comprehensive bitmap manipulation and analytics engine, delivering professional-grade image processing capabilities to any application. Built on proven open-source foundations and wrapped in an intuitive API, PixelFX eliminates the complexity of bitmap operations while providing enterprise-level performance.

**Core Capabilities**

**300+ Operations Across 14 Categories:**
-   **Arithmetic & Mathematical** -- Pixel-perfect calculations, trigonometry, statistics, and complex number operations
-   **Color Space Mastery** -- Seamless conversions between RGB, sRGB, HSV, Lab, CMYK, XYZ, and specialized color spaces
-   **Format Flexibility** -- Cast, scale, and transform between any image format or bit depth
-   **Advanced Filtering** -- Convolution, edge detection, blur, sharpen, and custom kernel operations
-   **Histogram Intelligence** -- Analysis, equalization, matching, and adaptive processing
-   **Morphological Processing** -- Erosion, dilation, opening, closing, and rank filters
-   **Frequency Domain** -- FFT transforms and frequency-based filtering
-   **Geometric Transforms** -- Resize, rotate, affine, and perspective corrections
-   **Drawing Operations** -- Shapes, lines, text, and flood fill with anti-aliasing
-   **Statistical Analysis** -- Min/max detection, deviation, profiles, and measurements
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### Why PixelFX?

**Powered by libvips** – Lightning-fast processing with minimal memory footprint. Where other libraries load entire images into RAM, PixelFX streams data intelligently, handling multi-gigabyte images on modest hardware.

**Multi-Format Excellence** – Native support for PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, TIFF, GIF, JPEG-XL, BMP, and more. Specialized formats like scientific FITS, medical DICOM, and RAW camera files are all handled seamlessly.

**Cross-Platform Power** – Identical API across Windows, Linux, macOS, and mobile platforms. Write once, process anywhere.

**Plugin Architecture** – Extend functionality without touching core code. Add custom filters, new formats, or specialized algorithms through clean plugin interfaces.

**Performance That Scales**
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*   **Multi-threaded by design** – Automatic CPU utilization across all cores
    
*   **Demand-driven processing** – Only compute what's needed, when it's needed
    
*   **Memory efficient** – Process 10GB images on machines with 2GB RAM
    
*   **Hardware accelerated** – Leverage SIMD instructions (SSE, AVX, NEON) automatically
    
*   **2-3× faster** than traditional libraries for typical operations"